Embassy of Poland – Trade & Investment Section

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Poland – basic facts

Territory: 312 700 km2 – 6th place in the EU

Population: 38.1 m. – 6th place in the EU

Currency: PLN (1 USD ~ 3.13 PLN)

GDP in 2013: $ 814 bn (PPP)

Membership: EU, NATO, OECD, WTO, Schengen Zone

620 mi radius

250 m people

1240 mi radius

550 m people

Strategic location of Poland

right in the centre of Europe!

Poland – highlights of what we produce

• LCD sets & Household appliances – largest producer in the EU

• Apples – the largest producer in Europe (second in the world)

• Windows and doors – second largest producer in the EU

(largest exporter of PVC and wooden windows in Europe)

• Tobacco – second biggest producer in the EU

• Furniture – Third largest exporter in the EU

• Aviation sector - Virtually every passenger aircraft

in the world carries at least one part made in Poland

• Yachts – European leader in the production of yachts up to 9.5 m

Poland a leader of growth in Europe

Source: E&Y Attractiveness Survey, June 2013

• 1st place in the CEE region – the most competitive country in the region.

• 1st place in terms of number of the investment projects in the CEE.

• 3rd place in the whole Europe in terms of created jobs due to FDI (13 111 jobs – only the UK and Russia were better).

• 3rd place in Europe in Europe in terms of created jobs per 1 project.

Source: UNCTAD, World Investment Prospects Survey 2009-2011, World Investment Report 2013.

Main advantages of Poland: Stable economic situation Market growth Size of internal market Access to regional markets System of investment incentives

Poland is among the 15 most attractive investment locations in the world

World Investment Report

45th place

The best result in the history

3rd place in credit availability

Poland among 15 countries catching up the fastest

Source: Doing Business Report 2014

10 place improvement

Doing Business 2014

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Source: Corruption Perceptions Index 2013 Transparency International

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Why Poland?

Highly skilled, young and abundant workforce!

Imagine Cup is a global competition focused on finding IT solutions to real world issues.

In 2012 students from Technical University in Gdansk and Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan took the 2nd and 3rd place respectively.

Students and graduates – achievements

Source: www.microsoft.com, www.us.edu.pl

2011: Polish team from University of Silesia is a special winner of Samsung Application Contest.

Every third student doing internship in Microsoft HQs in Redmond (USA) comes from Poland.

The winners of the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) belong to the best young computer scientists in the world.

In 2008 Polish team took 1st place ex-aequo with Chinese one. The third place individually was won by Pole, too.

ACN International Collegiate Programming Contest is an annual multi-tiered competitive programming competition among the universities of the world. The contest is sponsored by IBM.

2012 held in Poland, Team from University of Warsaw took 2nd place beating 110 teams.

Human resources

Źródło: EIU, Eurostat.

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• 20 million of talented young people, who speak foreign languages

• 1.7 mln students, over 400 000 graduates every year• 87% of students speak foreign languages• 50% of population is younger than 35 yrs.

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• there are 460 higher education institutions in Poland

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Learning of foreign languages is obligatory in the Polish education system

English is the most popular foreign language in Poland

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Children learn foreign languages from the age of 6

Language proficiency is one of the strongest points for Poland as a BPO center

Human resources

I. Exclusive CIT exemption in 14 Special Economic Zones

II. Government grants through individual negotiationsindividually approved and granted by the Ministry of the Economy

III. Real estate tax exemptionsubject to negotiation with the local authorities only in case if the investor is the owner of the building(provided by the Commune Council)

IV. Cash grants available through EU Fundssubject to negotiation with different managing institutions depending on the investment project key parameters

State aid – we want you to be succesfull

All above presented instruments can be combined together however the total amount of state aid cannot exceed the maximum aid intensity – European Union’s law

Why Poland?

Availability of skilled human resources

Economic and political stability

Effective incentive system including EU-Funding

Strategic location – gateway to the EU

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